> > Yes. Obsoleting 2374 is (from what I can tell) the point of this > > document. IMO, putting more into the document than needed to achieve > > just this is a distraction.
> I really don't find that the text you are objecting to is a distraction. > I think it makes the draft more comprehensible. But it's a judgement > call, so I'd like some other people to comment. Agreed. Trying to make this document a Proposed Standard is what makes me uncomfortable. There is nothing in it that is defining anything new in a standard's sense (at least, AFAIK). If it were informational, this issue would just go away. I guess some are arguing informational is not a strong enough signal, but I don't personally agree with that. Reclassifying a document as historic, and obsoleting it seems pretty clear to me. [side note: the MUST/MAY definitions can now be removed as they are no longer used.] Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Let me ask a pragmatic question. If this document goes on standards > > track, how will this document advance up the Standards Track? What > > will the implementation reports contain and actually test? I don't see > > immediately anything that is testable. This is one of the reasons I > > don't see Standards Track is being the right classification. > Good point (but doesn't it also apply to the address architecture > to a large extent?). BCP is our usual way out of that. Similar reasoning applies to addr arch. I think that making it a BCP might in retrospect also have been an alternative approach. But, that document also has a lot more in it, so it's easier to find stuff in that is clearly implementation related. But there is also pieces where the connection is not immediately obvious... Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
